This document describes the replication files associated with the paper:
Hirofumi Miwa, Yuko Kasuya, and Yoshikuni Ono. “Voters’ Perceptions and Evaluations of Dynastic Politics in Japan.” Asian Journal of Comparative Politics.

The following files are contained herein:
replication_data_stereotype.csv (data collected through the survey on voters’ stereotypes of legacy politicians)
replication_data_conjoint.csv (data collected through the conjoint experiment)
replication_data_women.Rdata (data of voters’ perceived prevalence of women members in the Diet)
replication_code_stereotype.R (R code to replicate the analyses on voters’ stereotypes of legacy politicians)
replication_code_conjoint.R (R code to replicate the analyses of the conjoint experiment)
codebook.pdf (explanation of variables included in the above CSV files)

In addition to the above files, you should prepare the following file:
- Reed-Smith-JHRED-CANDIDATES.dta, i.e., the Reed-Smith Japanese House of Representatives Elections Dataset (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QFEPXD)

To replicate our analyses, put our CSV and Rdata files and Reed-Smith-JHRED-CANDIDATES.dta in your working directory and run each R code.

All data analyses in this paper were carried out using R version 4.1.3 and the following R packages: estimatr version 0.30.6, MASS version 7.3-55, mlogit version 1.1-1, and readstata13 version 0.10.0. If you do not have these packages, please install them before running the replication codes.

If you have any questions or concerns about the files, please contact Hirofumi Miwa.